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12 02, 2025

Special Issue on climate-induced (im)mobilities: Glass of water is not the same for everyone: EU Mixed treaties with climate-vulnerable third countries

By Szymon Kucharski| 2025-02-12T10:51:49+00:00 February 12th, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, Climate-induced (im)mobilities|Tags: climate change, climate displacement, climate migrations, climate-vulnerable countries, EU Mixed treaties|0 Comments

Szymon Kucharski (S.K.J.), PhD candidate, Doctoral School for Social Sciences, Jagiellonian University (Kraków) Climate migrations, or climate mobilities, have been the subject of legal research for some time already. Many scholars have proposed numerous ways to aid persons in dire situations of that phenomenon including international conventions, protocols to the United Nations Framework Convention on [...]

12 02, 2025

Special Issue on climate-induced (im)mobilities: Forging a European Response to Environmental Displacement: Assessing Efforts and Constraints during the Revision of the Qualification Directive (2017-2024)

By Nikolas Keckhut| 2025-02-12T10:50:31+00:00 February 12th, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, Climate-induced (im)mobilities|Tags: climate change, climate displacement, environmental migration, European response, Qualification Directive (2017-2024)|0 Comments

Nikolas Keckhut, Master’s student, University of Strasbourg - Jagiellonian University Although the issue of environmental migration is struggling to move beyond public debate and into the legal sphere, it has surprisingly made its way into the European Parliament's debates on the revision of the Qualification Directive. The latter is the main European instrument for international protection, [...]

23 01, 2025

Special Issue on Climate-induced (im)mobilities: Taking ecological vulnerability seriously: Climate change-induced human trafficking and non-refoulement

By Carmen Pérez-González| 2025-01-23T12:53:11+00:00 January 23rd, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, Climate-induced (im)mobilities, current series|Tags: climate change, ecological vulnerability, human trafficking, non-refoulement|0 Comments

Post 3 in the Special Issue on Climate-induced (im)mobilities Carmen Pérez-González, Associate Professor of Public International Law, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid The accelerated deterioration of the earth’s life support system has exacerbated forced displacement. Such displacement places individuals and communities in a situation of vulnerability that multiplies opportunities for recruitment by human trafficking networks. We find examples [...]

23 01, 2025

Special Issue on Climate-induced (im)mobilities: ‘The Climate Refugee’ – a short review: Developing new solutions through the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment

By Carla Field| 2025-01-23T12:53:35+00:00 January 23rd, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, Climate-induced (im)mobilities, current series|Tags: and Sustainable Environment, Clean, climate change, climate displacement, climate refugees, Healthy, solutions|0 Comments

Post 2 in the Special Issue on Climate-induced (im)mobilities Carla Field, PhD Candidate at the University of Leicester School of Law Migration has been a coping strategy for millennia in times of uncertainty, and migration in the face of climate change is no different. However, early migration took place before the concepts of international borders, state [...]

15 01, 2025

Special Issue on Climate-induced (im)mobilities: Who is the ‘climate refugee’? Rethinking Identity, Recognition and Protection under International Law

By Irene Sacchetti| 2025-01-15T15:16:25+00:00 January 15th, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, Climate-induced (im)mobilities, Uncategorized|Tags: climate change, climate-induced, identity, immobilities, international law, mobilities, protection, recognition, refugees|0 Comments

Post 1 in the Special Issue on Climate-induced (im)mobilities Irene Sacchetti (PhD Candidate, Nottingham Law School) The Interplay between Identity Formation and Protection Who are “climate refugees”, and do they qualify for international protection under existing international law? I explored these questions with my students during a refugee law seminar. While most agreed that climate refugees [...]

15 01, 2025

NEW BLOG SERIES: Special Issue on Climate-induced (im)mobilities

By Andrea Maria Pelliconi, Sara Arapiles and Pratik Purswani| 2025-01-15T15:18:25+00:00 January 15th, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, Climate-induced (im)mobilities, current series|Tags: climate change, climate-induced, displacement, entrapment, immobilities, migration, mobilities|0 Comments

Editorial for the Special Issue on Climate-induced (im)mobilities Andrea Maria Pelliconi, Sara Arapiles and Pratik Purswani This Special Issue on Climate (Im)Mobilities problematises the role of the law in offering potential responses and solutions to displacement and entrapment, mobility and immobility caused by or related to climate change, building on discussions held during the Seminar on [...]